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Biology I: yeast, <em>Drosophila</em> and <em>C. elegans</em>
Feeding RNAi in C. elegans
Description
RNA interference, or RNAi, is a method for reducing the activity of a target gene. It works by introducing double-stranded RNA, or dsRNA, into an organism. The dsRNA matches a gene of interest and triggers targeted gene knockdown.
In the nematode C. elegans, RNAi is especially practical because t...
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Transcript
RNA interference, or RNAi, is a widely used technique in which double stranded RNA is introduced to an organism, resulting in targeted gene silencing. The Nobel winning discovery of RNA interference allowed researchers to silence any C. elegans gene in order to determine its function. We can induce RNAi in C. e...
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